Having Your Garden Landscaped is a Long Term Investment That Will Pay and Pay

By David A Robinson

Having your garden landscaped is a long term investment that will definitely pay off. It will add considerable value to your property should you ever consider selling it, and if you don't, you will have years of pleasure living in and around your newly landscaped garden.

Landscaping a garden is not for the faint of heart. This is a job for the experts, so don't skimp and save by trying to do it yourself for it will almost certainly cost you more in the long run. Call in an expert to get your garden landscaped, see your money being wisely spent and have peace of mind throughout it all, knowing that the end result will be as close to perfect as it can be.

This is not a task you will be doing on a regular basis, so it's important that everything is done that needs to be done, and that you want to see done. This is a long term investment, so plan carefully.

The landscape gardener that you hire should be a good listener. He or she should be able to take the time to hear all your hopes, wishes and dreams for how the finished product should look. It may not always be possible to accommodate everything you want, but knowing what you want is important. Then the landscape gardener can do an assessment of the garden and the results of that will more definitely determine what can happen next.

Garden landscaping comes in two basic flavours: hard landscaping and soft landscaping. Hard landscaping is where hands really get dirty. This involves construction or restructuring. It can be the creation of a pond or water feature, or it may be the smoothing out of an awkward ridge or rocky part, or draining and filling in a marshy part. This is where developing and remodelling comes in.

Soft landscaping is less of a hands-on discipline. It involves such things as choosing the kinds and types of plants and flowers to plant in a garden. This can be for their suitability to the area and ground type as well as for their aesthetic appeal. The use of plant and flower colour mixed in pleasing and suitable ways can be described as soft landscaping. Where a large area of lawn is concerned, the types of grass used are also important.

When you plan to have your garden landscaped you should be attempting to enhance and amplify the naturally beautiful and pleasing aspects of the garden. You should also try to conceal and lessen and defects. Straight lines and boundaries should be disguised, hidden or smoothed out to give a better impression of free flowing extent. Everything in the garden should appear to be part of the garden and not incongruous and out of place.

Landscape architecture is essentially an art. Land can be arranged and remodelled to accommodate the spaces and elements within it better. Colour as well as light and dark shade can be applied in pleasing ways that can add a splash of elegance and style to any garden.

David A Robinson
Help and information about garden design in Aberdeen.

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